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GIPEX is a festival of greed
Dear Editor,
Hordes of ‘Carpetbaggers’ will gather at the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit & Exhibition” (GIPEX-2019) to feast on Guyana’s oil economy.
On Wednesday 20th – 10:25 hrs – 10:40 hrs, they will be welcomed and feted during the opening address by His Excellency, Brigadier (ret’d) David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Granger will forego the shame of his ‘caretaker’ status to seek to be the center of attention. Granger should know that this is not a gathering of benevolent businessmen.
This is a gathering of predators, foreign and domestic, that will use every word he utters to their advantage.
A caretaker president cannot offer any policy direction or enter any binding agreements, should Granger offer any loopholes or incentives in his speech or subsequent interaction with GIPEX participants, Guyanese will have to enter massive legal battles to extricate ourselves and no doubt face a hefty legal bill to so do.
Granger’s hubris; his love of pomp, ceremony, and attention will cost us all our future well-being.
Granger should be aware by now that GIPEX 2019 has been organized by a shell company with ties to a minister, instead of the Department of Events within the Ministry of the Presidency. Granger cannot claim to ‘not know’ of this instance of corruption as he has with the countless previous incidents.
The question of if David Granger comes to this event with clean hands must be asked.
Despite being dubbed an official Government of Guyana event, GIPEX’s primary purpose is to expose opportunities available for those looking to invest in our oil sector; it should not be organized by a private company.
GIPEX is not an expo, it is a festival of greed with those in attendance all looking out for self-interest, this is networking love-fest designed share the spoils of oil and divvy up the Guyanese patrimony.
Even the biggest critics of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, understand that it would never allow the wholesale exploitation of our patrimony that is taking place before our eyes.
The PPP would not participate in an event inimical to Guyanese interests.
That said, citizens should not wait on any political party to organize protests of this odious event; we must take back our rights from the Granger cabal.
They have already signed away billions in royalties for a mere US$18M bonus which they then tried to steal.
We cannot trust them an inch- Guyanese have to represent themselves.
We know the time and place of the transgression- we need to stand up to this sellout of our fledgling oil economy before it is fully formed.
Robin Singh
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